One of my favorite pastimes is picking apart what Richard writes. There’s much to savor in the minutae. It’s as Claudiu said: Richard is describing “sensuousness” as being a particular sort of awareness. Looking again at what Richard wrote:
Richard: Sensuousness is the wondrous awareness of the marvel of being here now at this moment in time and this place in space.
Attentiveness And Sensuousness And Apperceptiveness
Removing a few extremities may help your comprehension:
- Sensuousness is the
wondrousawareness of the marvel of being here nowat this moment in time and this place in space.
In short,
- Sensuousness is the awareness of a marvel.
- (The marvel of being here now.)
A marvel is an activity, thing, or event that evokes a reaction of wonderment, amazement, or astonishment. There’s a “Wow” factor.
Note the antonyms to marvel include “indifference” and “disregard.”
Further, there is a miraculous quality buried in the roots of that term.
Richard frequently alludes to miracles and magic in reference to life and existence. Magic not just as in grand or magnifcent, but magic as in abracadabra, i.e., magic tricks, i.e., prestidigitation. It is the witnessing – and sensitivity – to the magical and miraculous that, as a matter of course, evoke marvelment and wonder.
Richard: Those people who look for miracles of a paranormal nature little realise that they are overlooking the greatest ‘miracle’ that there possibly could be: the phenomenon that we are here. It is so stupendous to be able to be here at all that I have no other recourse than to use the expressive word ‘magical’ to describe marvellous facticity and felicity of physical existence. No alchemist or conjurer anywhere in the world can even begin to equal the wondrous prestidigitation required to be getting soil and water and sunlight to transform itself into a walking, talking human being. One can only marvel at the fact that this entire edifice called life-on-earth is actually happening at all. To take it for granted that we are here, or – even worse – to wish we were not, is to miss out on the ‘miracle’ of living fully in this magical, fairy tale-like paradisiacal wonderland that is this planet earth.
A Conversation With A Spiritual Teacher
In short, to be sensuous is to be witnessing miracles taking place before your very eyes.